All Worlds Maintenance (Sept. 11)

[xRitzx]

[*]Addition of item level requirements for high-level dungeon participation
We'll be adding a requirement to participate in high-level dungeons and hard mode primal battles that will make it so you need to have equipment above a certain item level equipped to participate. To coincide with this, we will be implementing a system that will display the average item level for your gear in the character window.

I like the idea for PUGs but not for parties you make with friends. Skill and teamwork are more important than gear. If I'm missing gear for a dungeon but can complete it with free company members, I would really rather not farm useless gear for 10 hours or whatever just so I can do the dungeon easier.

[CrstyCaptin]

Greetings,

The development team is aware that there are times when you cannot participate in content so easily and without worry, and I’d like to let you know future countermeasures we have planned to address this.

1. Significantly reduce repair fees and the cost of dark matter
   While the focus will be placed on high-levels, we will be significantly lowering the overall fees for repair and the cost of dark matter.
   
   
2. Addition of item level requirements for high-level dungeon participation
   We'll be adding a requirement to participate in high-level dungeons and hard mode primal battles that will make it so you need to have equipment above a certain item level equipped to participate. To coincide with this, we will be implementing a system that will display the average item level for your gear in the character window.
   
   
3. Addition of a party recruitment window
   We'll be implementing a bulletin board type of system where you can recruit party members that are only on your world. When recruiting, you can indicate the dungeon you would like to do, the roles you are looking to recruit, the levels, etc. (We'll be announcing the details soon.)

We will be addressing #1 after the maintenance tomorrow, and #2 and #3 will be implemented after patch 2.1.

These are great, but a few suggestions;

1) Make it so that there's a repair window similar to a materia window where you can repair all items at once that are repairable by your current class.
Ex: I'm on GSM and I open up the repair window. All items are listed, with check boxes next to them. I can check the ones I want to repair or hit the 'repair all' button to repair everything that's repairable in my armoury box with GSM.

2) THANK YOU. Probably not an issue, but might want to look into minimum stats (both str/int/dex and def) as a secondary check since some ilvl gear is arguably worse than the lower ilvl gear.

3) I'm assuming this can be for DF stuff and non DF stuff, ie chimera/hydra, etc.

[echogame]

1. Significantly reduce repair fees and the cost of dark matter
   While the focus will be placed on high-levels, we will be significantly lowering the overall fees for repair and the cost of dark matter.

\o/!!!! GLORY HALLELUJAH.

[AjoraOak]

ilvl restrictions are always met with resistance, personally I believe none of the current dungeons are hard enough to actually require one but meh, if they say so since it'll be rolled out in 2.1 some day months from now probably. I could definitely see ilvl restrictions being useful for titan though.. but while they're at it they should fix the DF build for Titan since 2 tanks just makes no sense for a single mob unless they thought tanks would be switching like WoW after mountain buster or something (without a stacking debuff on a tank that won't happen).

[Estellios]

ilvl restrictions are always met with resistance, personally I believe none of the current dungeons are hard enough to actually require one but meh, if they say so since it'll be rolled out in 2.1 some day months from now probably. I could definitely see ilvl restrictions being useful for titan though.. but while they're at it they should fix the DF build for Titan since 2 tanks just makes no sense for a single mob unless they thought tanks would be switching like WoW after mountain buster or something (without a stacking debuff on a tank that won't happen).

At the very least maybe people will stop dumping Ifrit parties immediately when there is no BLM/SMN if the iLvl requirements lock out junky DRG and MNK with level 30 weapons which makes downing all the nails impossible.

[Scardon]

ilvl restrictions are always met with resistance, personally I believe none of the current dungeons are hard enough to actually require one but meh, if they say so since it'll be rolled out in 2.1 some day months from now probably. I could definitely see ilvl restrictions being useful for titan though

There will probably be new harder dungeons that need it. Plus it would be nice if the easier ones had a minimum on it so people aren't rolling in there with ridiculously under par gear from time to time.

[Neasa]

Guess those whiners will have even less to complain about regarding gil now.

And aww, no more all-AF pick-up groups!? >.> Thank gawd.

[Orophin]

I'd rather the game tell me my gear isn't adequate enough for content rather than some pretentious a-hole of a group leader gear checking people when their own gear isn't even up to par.

Nice changes all around. Probably good #2 is coming in after 2.1 though as we have hardcore groups trying to clear BCoB with gear that makes the content extremely challenging. I hope this doesn't cause issues in the future.

ilvl restrictions are always met with resistance, personally I believe none of the current dungeons are hard enough to actually require one but meh, if they say so since it'll be rolled out in 2.1 some day months from now probably. I could definitely see ilvl restrictions being useful for titan though.. but while they're at it they should fix the DF build for Titan since 2 tanks just makes no sense for a single mob unless they thought tanks would be switching like WoW after mountain buster or something (without a stacking debuff on a tank that won't happen).

Guessing you've already cleared all turns of Binding Coil then?

[kazaran]

How bout changing up the maintenance start/end times to shaft the JP players instead of us for once

It's not about shafting. The developers are in Japan and need to be awake at certain times to do maintenance. You can't expect them to be up in the middle of their night for you.

[ElunaMay]

When are the developers looking to address only checking our location every 0.3 seconds? this is currently making certain encounters incredibly frustrating for players outside of NA when combined with the fact were all at 150ms, we're potentially facing a half second server delay currently.

Thank you.